8.30-9.00 Registration

The registration desk will stay open throughout the day.

9.00-9.15 Welcome and opening remarks

9.15-10.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Chair: Daria Tunca, University of Liège, Belgium

• Kirpal Singh, Singapore Management University, Singapore, "Caryl Phillips and The Question of Political Identity: Wrestling with Prejudice"

Chair: Christine Pagnoulle, University of Liège, Belgium

• Renée Schatteman, Georgia State University, USA, "Conversations with Caryl Phillips: Reflections upon an Intellectual Life"
• Louise Yelin, Purchase College, USA, "'Plural Selves': The Dispersion of the Autobiographical Subject in the Essays of Caryl Phillips"

11.30-12.30 PANEL 2 Early Writings

Chair: Geoffrey Davis, University of Aachen, Germany

• Chika Unigwe, Independent Scholar, "The (Dis)Ease of Multiple Identities: the Nature of the Diasporic Identity in Caryl Phillips's Strange Fruit"
• Abid Labidi, University of Social and Human Sciences, Jendouba, Tunisia, "Caryl Phillips's The Final Passage: The (Dis)pleasures of Exile"

13.30-15.00 PANEL 3 Race

Chair: Vincent Cooper, University of the Virgin Islands, St Thomas

• Tsunehiko Kato, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, "The Historical Dilemma of the Black Protagonist in Dancing in the Dark"
• Lucie Gillet, University of Liège, Belgium, "Omnipresent and Everlasting Imperialism: Race and Gender Oppression in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and A Distant Shore"
• Dave Gunning, University of Leeds, UK, "Race, Caricature and Form in Dancing in the Dark"

15.30-17.30 PANEL 4 Caryl Phillips and the Other Writers

Chair: Gordon Collier, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

• John McLeod, University of Leeds, UK, "Naipaul, Phillips, and the Legacy of Pain"
• Malik Ferdinand, University of Paris III, France, "A New World and a Twilight: Ethics of the Caribbean Writer in Caryl Phillips's and Derek Walcott's Essays"
• Christine Levecq, Independent Scholar, "Intertextuality in Cambridge, or: What is Africa to Caryl Phillips?"
• Imen Najar, University of Liège, Belgium, "Conrad's Kurtz in Heart of Darkness and Phillips's Nash in Crossing the River: A Discursive Approach"

8.45-9.00 Registration

The registration desk will stay open until 12.00.

9.00-10.30 PANEL 5 Diaspora and Ambivalence

Chair: Tomi Adeaga, University of Siegen, Germany

• Wendy Knepper, Humboldt University, Germany, "Caryl Phillips's Sea-scapes of the Imaginary"
• Abigail Ward, Nottingham Trent University, UK, "'The Cloud of Ambivalence': Exploring Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound and A New World Order"
• Ayo Kehinde, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, "Postcolonial Writings and Transgression of Boundaries: Reading Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River as a Dialogic Text"

11.00-12.30 PANEL 6 Memory and History

Chair: Marc Delrez, University of Liège, Belgium

• Susanne Pichler, University of Innsbruck, Austria, "Acts of Remembering and Forgetting in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and Crossing the River"
• Itala Vivan, University of Milan, Italy, "The mask and the unheimlich in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark"
• Fatim Boutros, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, "Bidirectional Revision: The Connection between Past and Present in Caryl Phillips’s Literary Work"

13.30-15.30 PANEL 7 Europe and Africa in A Distant Shore

Chair: Stephen Clingman, University of Massachusetts, USA

• Sandra Courtman, University of Sheffield, UK, "Dorothy's Heart of Darkness: How Europe meets Africa in A Distant Shore"
• Alessandra Di Maio, University of Palermo, Italy, "New Tribes in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore"
• Petra Tournay, Cyprus College, Cyprus, "Strange Encounters: Nationhood and the Stranger in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore"
• Thomas Bonnici, State University of Maringá, Brazil, "Negotiating Place and Inclusion in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore"

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.00 PANEL 8 Black and Jewish Diasporas

Chair: Maurizio Calbi, University of Salerno, Italy

• Gemma Romain, The National Archives, UK, "Diasporic, Transnational, and Comparative Identity in Black and Jewish Memory: An Examination of the Writings of Caryl Phillips, Linda Grant, Gary Younge, and Howard Jacobson"
• Stef Craps, University of Ghent, Belgium, "Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood"

17.30-18.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Chair: Peter Marsden, University of Aachen, Germany

• Caryl Phillips, "Colour Me English"

18.30-19.30 RECEPTION